Dear Amazing Spidey Crew,

600 issues…a few adjectives come to mind (all positive BTW), but I’ll just stick with the obvious one- AMAZING! To think it was only six years ago that I was reading #500, and though both my world and Spidey’s has changed significantly since then, through it all I can safely say I get the same amount of joy and excitement with each issue. Perhaps even more. 

Great to see Dan Slott work on Spidey fulltime and for me the math on #600 was simple: SLOTT + DOC OCK=SOLD! That plus 104 pages all for the LOW, LOW COST OF $4.99!!!! Kudos all around. Guess I’ll have to return the favor by buying all the variant covers, won’t I? 

Spidey has always been a huge part of my life and though I can’t recall exactly my first encounter with the webhead, I do know Spider-Man brought me back into comics and has kept me in since. After seeing the first Spider-Man movie 3x in theaters I got a subscription to ASM ASAP starting with #481. I regret not returning to read the title when Straczynski first took over, but I’m so glad right now to be able to be part of this new era of Spider-Man.

I’ll admit that I haven’t loved everything that’s happened in the past 1 ½ year in ASM and still have some unanswered questions regarding One More Day which I’m sure you’ve  probably heard enough already. Still waiting to hear about whatever happened to the organic webbing and Spider-Man’s other enhanced powers, but after everything else that’s been revealed thus far, I can wait a little bit longer.

Looking forward to see what you guys have planed going forward A new Sinister Six? Wonder who’s in this roster. Doc Ock? Ana Kraven? The new Vulture?

I hear that Slott and artist supreme Marcos Martin will be teaming up again for a Mysterio story (DROOLS). Eagerly waiting to read it and see who’s under the dome. Quentin Beck, Daniel Berkhart, Francis Klum, or even…..A NEW MYSTERIO! Could it have anything to do with police officers: Quentin Palone & Julian Beck?

Curious and curiouser. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see won’t we? And on the subject of baddies, I don’t suppose we’ll be seeing the comic debut of Swiss Miss a new villain created for the stage set to appear in the SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK musical around the time it opens this February? How’s that for a free plug?

What else can I say but keep up the great work and assuming the thrice monthly schedule continues I’ll see ya again in May 2012 for #700! So what are you guys waiting for? Better get a head start on it now. I can wait…

-Taimur Dar